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3 Draft Maps for Portland City Council

Maps released last week provide three options for the new Portland City Council districts. All three drafts have the entire West Side in one district and the entire area east of I-205 in a second district. All of North and a chunk of Northeast end up in a third. Differences between the maps include what East Side neighborhoods will be grouped into a district with West Portland: Sellwood-Moreland, the Central Eastside, or Buckman and Kerns. [KGW]

Notable Passing of Christina Luu

Ha Luu, better known to Portlanders as Christina, survived Communist Vietnam, the imprisonment of her husband, and near starvation before moving to Portland in the early 1990s. She was the matriarch and chef behind beloved Vietnamese soup restaurants Ha VL and Rose VL. She died on May 29 at the age of 75. [Oregonian]

Republican Walkout Threatens Basic Funding

Republican state senators’ five-week-long walkout from the state Senate is now the longest in Oregon history. And Democratic leaders have given up on negotiations. It’s not clear how the Legislature will pass a budget, which means, for example, that two-thirds of the state’s school funding would disappear after Sept. 15. [Willamette Week]

• Related: City Cast Portland discussed last week’s Republican walkout and how the law passed by voters hasn’t halted the shutdown of state government. [City Cast Portland 🎧]

Housing Voucher Lottery Opens | Monday - Friday | Closes at 11:59 p.m. Friday

For the first time since 2016, Multnomah County is opening its lottery for housing vouchers — at 9 a.m. on Monday. [Free, Online, Multnomah County]

Noon Tunes Summer Concert Series: El Kays | Tuesday | Noon

The Portland-based folk-pop duo kicks off the summer series. [Free, Downtown]

Oregon Renaissance Faire | Sunday | 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Enjoy shanties, jousting, and drinking for a pirate-themed weekend. Buy tickets online in advance. [$25.95, Canby]

Four Songs That Define Award-Winning Writer Casey Parks’ Portland

Today, award-winning writer Casey Parks gives us her personal history as a young adult in Portland, through the lens of four songs. It’s part of a new series we’re calling “Portland Mixtapes.” Casey’s first book, “Diary of a Misfit,” was recently published to much critical acclaim and won this year's Oregon Book Award.

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